POSITION OBJECTIVE

　　The executive director of campaign strategy and strategic initiatives is responsible for planning, managing, and executing the strategies, processes, metrics, and relationships of all campaign activities on behalf of the university's 10-year $2.5 billion comprehensive campaign. This position will serve as the campaign lead and support the senior vice president for university relations and development and vice president for development administration and strategic engagement, and campaign volunteer leaders, working closely with all members of the University Relations and Development (URD) division's executive team, and university leadership to achieve the strategic goals of the campaign and philanthropic priorities for the university. The incumbent serves as a point of contact for the university-wide development community on the campaign and campaign-related activities and high-level projects. 

　　The executive director leads key fundraising initiatives that align comprehensive fundraising efforts in support of strategic priorities, as identified by the university president. The executive director will develop and manage of fundraising plans, collaborating with on-campus partners, development staff and leadership volunteers to develop prospect pipelines, cases for support and other development materials, develop tracking and reporting mechanisms and monitoring progress against established timelines and goals. The incumbent oversees large, often cross-functional, organization-wide fundraising projects or initiatives, bringing together important stakeholders and driving decisions and ensuring timely and successful completion of fundraising projects and initiatives, such as the Adelbert Gym campaign and the Faculty Hiring Initiative.

　　ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

　　Serve as principal planner of key fundraising strategies related to campaign goals and partner with University and Development leadership on strategic design, implementation, and fundraising for the campaign. Provide leadership to a comprehensive campaign strategy and operations plan. Develop, oversee, and monitor the overall campaign plan, timetable, and task-list, and goals as the campaign unfolds and implement campaign fundraising strategies in support of priorities established by the university. Develop policies related to campaign execution. Develop and oversee the campaign budget, create long-range strategic and financial campaign planning models, and lead campaign budget planning, reporting, and reconciliation. Manage the campaign consultant relationship, including scheduling their work, overseeing consultant projects, and monitoring consultant billing and budgets. Consult with the schools/units, as needed, and determined by URD leadership, on campaign-related topics, including volunteer management, campaign planning, campaign management, etc. Act as liaison for the senior vice president on campaign-related issues across the university, as needed. (25%)

　　Lead, develop, and manage a university-wide strategic initiatives program responsible for driving high priority multi-year fundraising initiatives as determined by the president and provost and in alignment with strategic philanthropic opportunities of the university. Collaborate with cross-functional teams across campus to ensure successful implementation of strategies to meet funding objectives for multiple projects. Convene key internal partners needed to advance fundraising for projects, setting objectives, developing strategies and timelines, and ensuring that projects progress toward their goals from inception to completion. Establish metrics and measures to evaluate initiative goal completion. Provide prospect management processes pipeline to effectively enhance cultivation and solicitation. Monitor the prospect pipeline for each initiative to ensure fundraising goal are achieved. (20%)

　　Lead a comprehensive legacy program focused on families that have mult